Oregon, OH Public Conduct: Public Marijuana Use (2026)

16, Adult Use Cannabis Control, sits in Chapter 513, Drug Abuse Control, of the General Offenses Code and enacts the City's local version of Ohio's adult-use marijuana rules for the City of Oregon, Ohio. Subsection (a)(3)B provides flatly that no person shall knowingly consume adult-use marijuana or homegrown marijuana in a public place, and subsection (a)(3)C extends the prohibition to anyone operating a public place, who may not knowingly permit that consumption on the premises. The section layers a second, method-based restriction in subsection (b)(1)B: no person may knowingly consume adult-use or homegrown marijuana by smoking, combustion or vaporization anywhere other than privately owned real property used primarily for residential or agricultural purposes, meaning even private but non-residential property does not qualify.

Subsection (b)(1)C reinforces the ban in child-care homes, licensed halfway houses and community residential centers, rental units whose lease prohibits it, and any public place or place of employment. The home-grow provisions in subsection (a)(1) permit an adult-use consumer to cultivate up to six plants per person (twelve per residence) only in a secured, enclosed area not visible from a public space, and none of that authorization extends to use in public. 99, so a public-consumption citation is enforced and penalized through that general framework rather than a standalone dollar figure printed in this section. Enforcement falls to the Division of Police.